Anne Frank Guide

But by giving the Jews the blame Hitler created an enemy. Hitler said that all Germany’s problems had been caused by the Jews. Many people believed him.

Banish

The solution to all these problems was to banish the Jews from society. With this political message and the promise to make Germany a large and economically powerful country Hitler’s party won the 1932 election. In 1933 he and his party came to power.

Antisemitism was not new

Did Hitler invent hatred of Jews? No, Hitler built on and used antisemitic ideas that already existed. He was Austrian and grew up in Vienna where the mayor was extremely antisemitic and where hatred of Jews was widespread. His hatred of Jews cannot be tied down to a specific event in his life, for example a Jewish childhood friend, as many children think.

'Race'

Hitler and the Nazis also thought that people could be divided into different races and that there was a struggle going on between these different races. According to the Nazis the ‘Aryan race’ was the best and strongest race. Jews were of another inferior race. In fact so inferior that they were not considered to be ‘people’ by the Nazis.

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Hello,in my oppinion today people make a big mistake regarding concentration cam.
People know only about jewis that was there
The truth is , was also romi people 30,000 romi and nobody say nothing about them.
What is more?
Today when romi people are emigrate in contries like uk france or germany,they call them gipsy and all the bad things associated with them is a usaual whay of thinking.
So,not only jew was in there,remember that.
Was also gipsy people and please remind us about them.

Alin stefanesch,
38 -Bucharest -Romania -25 Jan 2015

Tyvm, i got project done thanks to this site n a couple others... also i hear that there is evidence that says Hitler is actually 1/4th jewish... his grandma is supposedly jewish and he tried to hide any jewish ancestry from everyone or he could have been in some serious trouble with the germans

Michael,
13 -Bitchfield -United Kingdom -21 Jan 2015

How could you tell if people were Jews ? Jewish isn't a race , it's a religion....